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Faith-Based Initiative to Promote Health in Appalachia

NCT02121691 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 669

Last updated 2017-06-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The project will target two behavioral causes of obesity: a sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet. The goal is to test a faith-based intervention among men and women who are members of participating Appalachian churches.

The primary hypothesis being tested in this project is: The change in body mass index from baseline to one year follow-up in intervention churches will be greater than among comparison churches, such that the differential change will be negative on average.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Walk by Faith

The Walk by Faith program is aimed at increasing physical activity and improving healthy eating to reduce or maintain healthy BMI among members of the churches.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mark Dignan, PhD

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mark Dignan, PhD, MPH · Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center at University of Kentucky

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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